Ars Technica reports United Launch Alliance’s last Delta IV Heavy rocket is set to lift off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, with a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the US government’s spy satellite agency. “Weather permitting, the Delta IV Heavy will light up its three hydrogen-fueled RS-68 engines at 1:40 pm EDT (17:40 UTC) Thursday, the opening of a four-hour launch window.”
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Weather Conditions Look Favorable for ULA and SpaceX Launches This Week
Florida Today reports that the Space Force said Tuesday that weather conditions for ULA’s launch of a Delta IV Heavy rocket, and SpaceX’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket – both scheduled for this week – look highly favorable. The weather conditions for the launch of the Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office intelligence-gathering satellite are 90% “go” for 6:15 p.m. EST liftoff Thursday. The weather conditions for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload for SiriusXM is 80% go for Friday. The SpaceX launch is scheduled for a two-hour window that opens at 11:20 a.m. EST.
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